The Syrian military has recently started using new types of air and ground weapons supplied by Russia, a Syrian military source told Reuters on Thursday. The source described the weapons as highly accurate and effective, adding that the army had started using them in recent weeks having been...

A medical crew in the besieged border town of Zabadani west of Damascus has appealed to human rights organizations and world powers for an immediate intervention to safe lives of civilians trapped in the town that has been under devastating attack by Syrian regime army and key ally Hezbollah...

At least 12 people were killed when three bombs went off in mainly Shi'ite neighborhoods in central Baghdad on Thursday, security and medical sources said. Two suicide bomb attacks in the central commercial district of Bab al-Shargi killed at least eight people and wounded 18 others. A third...

The United States has identified a small number of Russian helicopters at a Syrian airfield, U.S. officials said on Wednesday, the latest addition to what Washington believes is a significant Russian military buildup in the country. One of the officials said four helicopters had been...

Some 4,000 migrants have entered Croatia from Serbia in the past 24 hours after Hungary sealed its border, national state-run HRT television reported on Thursday. New migrants were continuing to enter the European Union (EU) member on its eastern border, which became their new route on the...

Yemeni Prime Minister Khaled Bahah returned to the southern port of Aden on Wednesday in a step towards restoring a government on home soil after months of working from exile with Gulf Arab allies to combat Houthi domination of the country. Government spokesman Rajeh Badi said...

The Obama administration said Wednesday is was considering how to respond to a Russian proposal for military talks over Syria, where Moscow is expanding its forces even as U.S. warplanes conduct daily air strikes against Islamist militants. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry...

Hundreds of Syrians and other migrants thronged a small park in central Istanbul on Wednesday, hoping for a last chance to reach Europe before poor weather makes their favored route from Turkey to Greece too dangerous to undertake. "It is time to go, while the door to Europe is...

Syrian regime air strikes on Wednesday have killed 30 civilians in rebel-held neighborhoods of northern city of Aleppo, activists and a monitoring group said. The Syrian Network for Human Rights said at least 20 people, including 3 children and a woman, were killed in barrel bomb attack on...

Riot police fired water cannon and tear gas on Wednesday at migrants demanding to be let through Hungary's newly shut EU frontier, while refugees at other Balkan frontiers clambered through cornfields in search of new routes. Hungary's decision this week to shut the European...

(Reuters)- The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday that the U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic state has little to show for itself, a year after its establishment. "A legitimate question arises - what results have we got from sending into the region military forces of...

Only four or five U.S.-trained Syrian rebels are still fighting in Syria, a top U.S. general told Congress on Wednesday, a stark admission of setbacks to a fledgling military program that critics have already pronounced a failure. The U.S. military began training in May for up...

The Syrian refugee who was tripped at a border hotspot by a Hungarian journalist while carrying his son will live in a Madrid suburb after a Spanish soccer academy convinced him to take an apartment offer and help to rebuild his life. Luiz Miguel Pedraza of the CENAFE school that trains soccer...

At least 8 people were wounded when a car bomb went off in mainly Alawites neighborhood in central city of Homs on Wednesday, State-run news agency said on Wednesday. SANA said "terrorists" detonated a Kia Rio car rigged with explosive near the square of al-Zahra, a key pro-regime...

Several dozen migrants entered Croatia from Serbia early Wednesday, the first to enter the EU country after Hungary sealed its borders to thousand of people entering every day, an AFP correspondent saw. The group of mostly Syrian or Afghan men, women and children crossed the border – which...

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters)- Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants killed three Turkish police officers overnight in a bomb attack on their armored vehicle as they traveled along a highway in southeast Turkey, security sources said Wednesday. Another officer was seriously wounded in the...

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is developing a plan right now for taking in at least 10,000 Syrian refugees over the next year, within existing budget constraints, Secretary Jeh Johnson told Reuters on Tuesday. While some lawmakers have expressed concern about opening a...

At least 38 people, including 14 children, were killed on Tuesday when Syrian insurgents shelled three government-held neighborhoods in western Aleppo, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. "More than 150 people were wounded. This is one of the highest death tolls caused by...

Syrian regime President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview with Russian media he would only quit power if the Syrian people wanted him to and not under pressure from the West, a transcript of the interview published Wednesday showed. "As for the president, he comes to power with the...

 U.S. President Barack Obama said on Tuesday the migrant crisis had worsened and required cooperation from European nations and the United States to address. Obama made his remarks during a meeting with Spain's King Felipe VI. The president said he hoped to visit Spain before the end of...